Rati Tsinamdzgvrishvili

Rati Tsinamdzghvrishvili
Personal information
Full nameRati Tsinamdzghvrishvili
Date of birth22 March 1988
Place of birthTbilisi, Soviet Union
Height1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps†(Gls)†
2003–2009FC Ameri Tbilisi75(27)
2009–2013FC Zestaponi92(25)
2013–2014Chikhura Sachkhere15(2)
2014FC Sasco2(0)
2014–FC Sapovnela5(1)
National team
2003-2004Georgia U-175(3)
2004-2006Georgia U-1913(11)
2006-2007Georgia U-217(2)
2005–2006Georgia3(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 April, 2012.
† Appearances (Goals).

Rati Tsinamdzghvrishvili (Georgian: რატი წინამძღვრიშვილი, born 22 March 1988 in Tbilisi) is a Georgian football player, currently playing for FC Sapovnela.

Career

He made his international debut for the Georgia national football team at the age of 17.

In 2006 he won the Georgian Cup with FC Ameri Tbilisi in the final of which he scored a beautiful header against FC Zestafoni.

Personal life

His last name, Tsinamdzghvrishvili, which takes 18 letters to spell in English and contains 13 consonants, has been found by most foreigners to be unpronounceable. So in most games, his name on the back of his shirt normally only reads Rati (his first name) instead of Tsinamdzghvrishvili, which would take two to three separate lines of readable-sized letters on the back of a football shirt.

Tsinamdzghvrishvili is an old Georgian noble name, of which Rati is a direct descendant. His family and grandfather, Ilia Tsinamdzghvrishvili, still live in the village of Tsinamdzghvriantkari (named after the Tsinamdzghvrishvilis) in the hills near the Georgian capital Tbilisi. This is where Rati spent a lot of his childhood.

His grandfather, Ilia, who is a retired PE teacher, and his uncle, Mamuka Tsinamdzghvrishvili, a successful Georgian wrestler, were the main influences in Rati’s sporting upbringing.

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